From: Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
Date: 2006-03-06T02:33:53+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby pass like statement

If the method is not defined the interpreter will throw a
NoMethodError exception.

If you don't want that you can just define your method with an empty body

class Test
  def foo
  end
end

This will return a nil if called.

Farrel


On 3/5/06, rtilley <rtilley@vt.edu> wrote:
> Farrel Lifson wrote:
> > Does pass actually do anything like print to stdout "some_function not
> > yet defined"?
>
> No, it's just a place holder.
>
> It would be incorrect (in Python) to not define the function. So, you
> place the 'pass' statement there to avoid causing errors when testing
> your program. Without the pass statement, I believe one would be
> required to comment out the undefined function in order to execute the
> program. Maybe this is not needed in Ruby???
>
>